Events and Activities
2011-2012 Lectures and Events
Midwest Symposium in German Studies (April 13-14, 2012).
The lecture by Professor Amir Eshel (Stanford University) scheduled for February 2012 has been postponed to February 2013. Details as the time approaches.
German Colloquium discussion of Edmund De Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (November 30, 2011).
Professor Merrill Kaplan (Ohio State University), "Practical Uses for Severed Body Parts in Old Norse Myth and Literature" (November 4, 2011)
Conference on Change Through Exchange: Promoting Global Leadership Via Academic Exchange (October 27-28).
2010-2011 Lectures and Events
Midwest Symposium in Germanic Studies (April 15-16).
Andrea Geier, Visiting Distinguished Max Kade Professor (Universität Trier), "Verlebendigung und Historisierung von Geschichte: DDR und Mauerfall in der Literatur seit der Jahrtausendwende."
Professor Glenn Ehrstine (University of Iowa), "Late Medieval Play Spectatorship between Private and Public Devotion"
Professor Toril Moi (Duke University), "Hedda's Silences: Skepticism and Modernity in Hedda Gabler" and "What Does It Mean to Claim that Sex, Gender and the Body are Socially Constructed?"
Professor Christopher Oscarson (Brigham Young University), "Toxic Discourse and the Definition of Europe"
2009-2010 Lectures and Events
Symposium on "Representing Transnationalism: Germanic Languages and Cultures in Global Perspective"
Professor Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University), "Kafka's Wife and the Children of Bruno Schulz"
Professor Yasemin Yildiz (University of Illinois), "Beyond the Mother Tongue? The Postmonolingual Condition in Art and Literature"
Dr. Andrea Grafetstaetter (Universität Bamberg) and Visiting Distinguished Max Kade Professor (University of Illinois), "'daz geschiht von mannes minne'. Szenische und ikonographische Visualisierung heldenepischer Paarbeziehungen am Beispiel von Siegfried und Kriemhild"
Professor Gerhard Lauer (Universität Göttingen), "Das Erdbeben von Lissabon und die Katastrophensemantik des 18. Jahrhunderts"
Professor Mark McCulloh (Davidson College), "Image and Dichtung in W.G. Sebald"